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Pogrom is a splendid book that pinpoints the moment at the start of the twentieth century when exile in Europe turned deadly in a way that foretold the end of everything. It tells us the horror that occurred street by street, butchery by butchery with gripping clarity and an admirable brevity. -- Philip Roth, author of The Human Stain A riveting, often painful and vivid picture of a pogrom which captured attention worldwide, Zipperstein looks beyond the event itself...Written with the insight of an impeccable historian, his account that will intrigue scholars as well as the widest array of readers can be seen as a harbinger of what would come but four decades later. -- Deborah Lipstadt, author of The Eichmann Trial Impressive, heart wrenching...Zipperstein reminds us that it is important to understand the catastrophes that preceded. And there's no better place to start than Kishinev...[A] masterly work. -- New York Times Book Review This book, a model of the historian's craft, demonstrates how a single event in a provincial town can shape the imagination of a century. Structural grace and clear prose allow a lifetime of historical meditation and a decade of multilingual research to reach virtually any reader interested in Jewish, Russian, and, indeed, American history. -- Timothy Snyder, author of Black Earth With extraordinary scholarly energy, Zipperstein uncovers sources in Russian, Yiddish, and English that show not only why this bloody event ignited the Jewish imagination, its sense of embattlement in exile, but also why it had such lasting resonance internationally. -- New Yorker Zipperstein's excellent narrative vividly illustrates...why the lessons that 'spilled from the pogrom's rubble' still resonate today. -- San Francisco Chronicle [A] historical masterpiece. -- Los Angeles Review of Books

"""Pogrom is a splendid book that pinpoints the moment at the start of the twentieth century when exile in Europe turned deadly in a way that foretold the end of everything. It tells us the horror that occurred street by street, butchery by butchery―with gripping clarity and an admirable brevity."" -- ""Philip Roth, author of The Human Stain"" ""A riveting, often painful and vivid picture of a pogrom which captured attention worldwide, Zipperstein looks beyond the event itself...Written with the insight of an impeccable historian, his account―that will intrigue scholars as well as the widest array of readers―can be seen as a harbinger of what would come but four decades later."" -- ""Deborah Lipstadt, author of The Eichmann Trial"" ""Impressive, heart wrenching...Zipperstein reminds us that it is important to understand the catastrophes that preceded. And there's no better place to start than Kishinev...[A] masterly work."" -- "" New York Times Book Review"" ""This book, a model of the historian's craft, demonstrates how a single event in a provincial town can shape the imagination of a century. Structural grace and clear prose allow a lifetime of historical meditation and a decade of multilingual research to reach virtually any reader interested in Jewish, Russian, and, indeed, American history."" -- ""Timothy Snyder, author of Black Earth"" ""With extraordinary scholarly energy, Zipperstein uncovers sources in Russian, Yiddish, and English that show not only why this bloody event ignited the Jewish imagination, its sense of embattlement in exile, but also why it had such lasting resonance internationally."" -- "" New Yorker"" ""Zipperstein's excellent narrative vividly illustrates...why the lessons that 'spilled from the pogrom's rubble' still resonate today."" -- "" San Francisco Chronicle"" [A] historical masterpiece."" -- "" Los Angeles Review of Books"""

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Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. A contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Jewish Review of Books and coeditor of the Jewish Lives series for Yale University Press, he lives in Berkeley, California. Barry Abrams has narrated and produced audiobooks for a variety of publishers. Since 2012, he has also hosted and produced ESPN's In the Gate podcast. Based in Danbury, Connecticut, he also engineers and calls live webcasts of his son's ice hockey games.

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